Project Manager Personalities

Yes, there are standards, PMBOK, tools, techniques, methodologies and all of that. It makes it look as if project management can be robotized.

In reality, project management is a very human activity. The job of a project manager is to achieve an objective, and manage all the chaos, unknown, issues and challenges that the project will face on its path.

Because, let’s be honest, if everything could be planned, it could also be programmed, automated, and there would be no need for a project manager.

In fact, project manager is the opposite of that. It is also why it is so different from regular business operations. It is much easier to automate regular business operations than projects.

And projects are done with persons:

The client

The sponsor

The project teams

The stakeholders

Good communication with all stakeholders is very important. How you manage the various relationships with all of these persons will have a strong influence on the success of the project.